Hi,
I'm a newbie in Hibernate.I'm hoping someone would answer..

In our application we are using Spring services and Hibernate as ORM.Now, the Spring injects a session factory to the DAO everything is great so faar..

The question is :- In my DAO if I access Hibernate Session as
Session session = SessionFactoryUtils.getSession(getSessionFactory(), false);

does this session be in the Transaction as the Spring? Can it see the Transaction Attributes set on it or its a completely or purely Hibernate Session and does not know about Spring..

Just to reiterate the question,If I have a query running under Spring transaction with Spring session (from SessionFactory) and I get the Hibernate Session as shown above and run another query using Hibernate Session will both the queries use the same Transaction and Transaction Attributes or different..

Thanks,
sa

i think no, because spring begin and end transaction own (i don't sure for sping; i don't use it more for database access)

for hibernate if you open transaction you use it while don't commit/rollback
see Session#beginTransaction

Hi,
First of all thank you for responding.
I think I did not explain the question well..

Here is what I want to know:-
I was reading an article which says..

Spring allows you to manage transactions declaratively:-
An Example from the article :-

<bean id="userDAOTarget" class="net.sf.hibernateExamples.UserDAOImpl">
<property name="sessionFactory"><ref local="sessionFactory"/></property>
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory"><ref bean="sessionFactory"/></property>
</bean>

<bean id="userDAO"
class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="transactionManager"><ref local="transactionManager"/></property>
<property name="target"><ref local="userDAOTarget"/></property>
<property name="transactionAttributes">
<props>
<prop key="addGroup">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>


Now This is UserDAO.java in which spring gets Hibernate Session behind the scenes and does a save.
[UserDAO.java]
/**
* @param group
*/
public void addGroup(Group group) {
getHibernateTemplate().save(group);


}


Now I'm adding another method here which gets the Hibernate Session but unaware of Spring I guess.. and I'm trying to save does both the saves will be under Spring transaction?

What are DONT's that we need to do to not to go out of Spring control?



[UserDAO.java]
/**
* @param group
*/
public void addGroup(Group group) {
getHibernateTemplate().save(group);

Session session = SessionFactoryUtils.getSession(getSessionFactory(), false);
session.save(anothergroup);

}

Thanks,
sa

i don't sure ( i don't know spring enough), but i think that you will work in same transaction

you can debug - and call session.getTransaction() after
getHibernateTemplate().save(group);

and before

session.save(anothergroup);

getTransaction() exits in last hibernate (3.1 only i think)